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“Youth and evangelization” is the slogan adopted by the Greek Episcopal Conference for the pastoral care of the young. Bishop Francesco Papamanolis of Syros, Santorini and Crete, who coordinates the national Commission for Youth Apostolate, explains: “The number of young Greek Catholics who are members of our youth organizations does not exceed 500. It should […]

The personal “offer”, the experience of the diaconate, the taking seriously its demands, and the willingness to embark on a journey that is truly shared”: these are the elements indispensable for the inculturation of the Gospel in the youth world in Germany today. The four basic questions that young people pose to themselves: “Is my […]

Listening and the sharing of hopes: that, in short, is the attitude that the Church of France has assumed in recent years to respond to the needs and to the requests of youth today, torn “between enthusiasm and fear”. As far as the youth apostolate is concerned, reference is made to two documents that summarize […]

A country strongly rooted in religious faith but one in which young people “tend to live their own faith outside the Church”. Moreover, “ever stronger criticism is being mounted” against the ecclesial institutions, “due to a certain ‘bureaucratization’ of the Church and its ever closer ‘resemblance’ with other institutions of society”. This is the picture […]

1.5 million Catholics out of a total population of approximately 9 million. These are the figures that emerge from a recent socio-religious survey which provided a statistical picture of Catholic Belarus today. A limited presence perhaps, but not an insignificant one if one bears in mind that in the recent past the structures of the […]

Having to do with young people who “grow up without having contacts with the Christian faith” is a challenge for the Belgian Church, which is being urged to “live the Gospel in a more authentic way”. The fact that young people in Belgium have “no knowledge” of the Gospel does not mean – stress the […]

According to the Institute of Research on Youth (ÖIJ), the ecclesial context is, in the great majority of cases, not the sphere in which young people make their first experiences of the faith, even if 45% of the young describe themselves as religious; that’s why there’s a need for “new forms of liturgy” that young […]

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“We are making efforts in all our dioceses. The most recent moment was the celebration of diocesan Youth Day on the vigil of Palm Sunday. At Scutari, my own diocese, over 2500 young people intervened for a very rewarding evening on the theme ‘You are the salt of the earth, you are the light of […]

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Finding the “right way” to reach the hearts” of the young”, “discerning the signs of the time and the work of divine grace that acts in the heart of persons”: in the view of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, called to celebrate the opening Mass, this is the main aim […]

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After a century of “terror and traumas”, as was the twentieth, characterized among other things by a “deliberate religious persecution” and by “forced deportations” of the population, Christianity in the Ukraine has passed from the ‘”euphoria” of the post-Wall period, with the consequent entry into the Western processes of “globalization” (and the imbalances due to […]